Buggy attachment.



PATENTE'D AUG. 18, 1903.

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BUGGY ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 18, 1903.

CLAYTON BROWN, OF AROANUM, OHIO.

BUGGY ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,814, dated August 18, 1903.

Application filed May 9, 1903. Serial No. 156,422. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLAYTON BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Arcanum, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buggy Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a buggy attachment, and particularly to a box or receptacle applicable to the rear of the box or like vehicle for carrying food, groceries, tools, feed, &c.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a body of a buggy or other vehicle, showing the box attachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through the box attachment.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the views.

The numeral 1 designates the buggy or other vehicle body supported on arear spring device 2, including a bar 3,to which jacks 4. are secured.

The attachment comprises a box or receptacle 5 of any suitable dimensions, having a hinged lid 6, which is arranged to open toward the rear end of the bodyl. This box or receptacle 5 is held by hangers 7, having upper hooked ends 8, with inner buifers 9 to engage the bar 3 without injury to the latter. At a suitable point below the hooks 8 the hangers are formed with angular ofisets 10, and from the outer terminals of said offsets the hangers continue into embracing straps 11 of approximate rectangular form,in which the box or receptacle 5 is placed and secured by suitable fastenings 12, passed through the free ends of the straps and the rear angular portions of the same depending from the offsets 10. The purpose of the offsets is to permit the hinged lid or cover 6 of the box or receptacle 5 to be opened without obstruction, so that the interior of the box may be rendered fully accessible. When the lid or cover 6 is opened, it is thrown back against the vertical portions of the hangers above the offsets and is thereby prevented from striking the spring devices of the vehicle or the rear end of the body 1.

The box or receptacle attachment is adapt-i ed to carry articles of food, tools, or other devices and is especially useful in connection with buggies having closed boots, though it is capable of being used with any vehiclebody. It will be seen that the attachment may be readily disconnected from one vehicle-body and applied to another, and the particular advantage in connecting the same to the spring devices is that detachment of the box will be less liable to occur from jarlower portions of the hangers being formed with angular offsets continuing into embracing straps which engage the box.

2. The combination with a vehicle-body, of a box attachment comprising a box proper having a hinged lid or cover, and hangers secured to the side of the box next to the vehicle-body, the said hangers being formed with angular oifsets to project the box outwardly from the vehicle-body and also pro vided with upper hooked ends to engage the edge of the vehicle-body.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OLAYTON- BROWN.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. ELIKER, JACOB THOMAS. 

